I rented my first keyboard for my first set of gigs at age 20 here. Shopped for my first Roland and never looked back. Bought my first guitar and violin. Music stands and songbooks and gear for decades. Steve's helped make me a musician. 💔
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Canadian musicians: sign the petition! Organized by SOCAN
Say No To AI Training on Unlicensed Music
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Starting a blog & limited mailing list to share my mental health journey over the next 6 months. If you'd like to join it, please DM me. There's gotta be a better way to live a creative life than this. I think we can help each other find it (away from here). 💔❤️🩹♥️
about to take a 6 month hiatus from most platforms to remember what it means to be an artist and not a peddler of content that sucks the soul from everything that actually matters, at least for me
#artisticburnout #autisticburnout
To you too, my friend! I hope tosee you next summer on your home turf 🧡
YES. This is also why I'm about to take a 6 month hiatus from most platforms that I use. I just cannot think straight anymore.
I am an artist. I am here on this planet to make art, not content.
I'll be doing this too. I knew about the CEO funding choices but not the ICE ads. Cancelled my Spotify account a month ago. Pulling my music off the platform is next.
The only reason I've ever had to visit the Met's American Wing. That is, if you could pay me to cross the border.
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Atheist proselytizers are the religious proselytizers I’m most likely to come into contact with and they’re just as annoying as all of the other ones I experience
based in turn on 'Sun-Maid and Dragon-Prince' in Apples of Immortality: Folktales of Armenia (LA: UofCA Press, 1968) collected & translated by Leon Surmelian
📚 sources
Based on the story 'Sun-Girl and Dragon-Prince’ in the children's collection The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women (Boston: Little, Brown, 2000) as retold by Katrin Tchana, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman...
Arevhat decides to search for a cure by walking to the end of the earth. She returns, lifts the curse, and man & land are restored. She is finally located by her monster-prince-turned husband, who asks her to come home. She gladly accepts, leaving her child to be raised by his father.
Enraged by her good fortune, her step-mother tries to drown her in a river but she survives until she can climb ashore. Having walked through the endless desert, one day she meets a man who cannot look at the sun and lives in darkness. Their friendship develops and they have a child together...
🔎 origin
Armenian
📖 story
Arevhat meets a woman who changes her life forever when she transforms her hair so it shines like the sun. Out into the world she goes, only to be stolen and fed to a monster. Her kindness melts his heart and he falls in love with her, turning back into a prince...
The silhouette of a young woman walking across a wide, deserted plain, beneath the beating sun, to find a cure for her partner. She walks until she wears out her shoes.
#wanderlingwednesday
one for every week of the year
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I love your art, Beckett!
The Oatmeal putting it into words better than I could. I hate AI with a depressing monotone of a wearied scream into the corporate void. I've never come closer to quitting making art for a living than I have in 2025. Reading this, helps me put words to thoughts.
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Li Chi is a young woman from 4th c Chinese legend who stood up to power and saved her people from the tyranny of unjust rule and the complicity of wealth.
She had a sword, a dog, and some sticky rice balls. With them she slayed a monster.
Give Me a Sword has a new lease on life thanks to Das Binky. This song is for all the Li Chi's among us, slaying the monsters we can. PWYC on Bandcamp today
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Liam Ó Maonlaí leads tributes to Manchán Magan who has died aged 55
“At the end of the night, the three of us held hands and said a prayer for Manchán on the street. It was before the word came. We got to the B&B and Rónán came in and said: ‘Tá sé imigh’.”
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Based on the story ‘The Serpent Slayer’ in children's collection The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women (Boston: Little, Brown, 2000) as retold by Katrin Tchana, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman; originally recorded by Gan Bao in the 4th c Jin dynastic collection Soushen Ji
🔎 origin
Chinese
📖 story
Li Chi volunteers to be the annual sacrifice to a local serpent in order to protect her community. Armed with a sword, a dog, and some sticky rice balls she slays the monster and frees the village, bringing the bones of all those who died before her back to their families.
Young woman with sword raised and loyal dog at her side, prepares to attack serpent monster who wants to eat them. The serpent guards its hoard of bones.
#wanderlingwednesday
one for every week of the year
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On a purple and gray background with stars, hearts, and rainbows in the colors of the nonbinary pride flag is black text in a variety of fonts that says “If the GENDER BINARY was real, they wouldn’t need to make LAWS to enforce it.”
Just sayin. 🤷🏻
#nonbinary
#lgbtq
I am autistic. I hear colour and taste sound. My brain is a marvel. I sing, write, paint, sculpt, compose, play, perform, imbue, impart, and inspire. I struggle to find my place in capitalism and arbitrary social constructs. I rebel against power. Passion, patterning, and integrity guide me forward.
for those of us who wrestle our autonomous creativity from the iron fist of perfectionism, especially when perfectionism is so damn hot #MusicSky #Swanky #BossaNova
"repeat after me" new single with @drmaryccrowell.bsky.social
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The word “myriad” can be used as either a noun or an adjective, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
#copyediting
Love him!
